Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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What's the Reaction to That?
When this all came out in 1972, that's horrendously recent. So these were being run by the United States Public Health Service. They deliberately exposed people from certain backgrounds to try and see what was going on long term. And it kind of makes you think like other experiments that we just don't know about. But again, if it wasn't for this one man who was a whistleblower, this would never have happened. My god. I mean, that is just to think that that went on for 40 years.
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